The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-25

aud was invariably told they could not.
T alLu oaonIe he was informed, We're
aood fenpI;gh. but the leaders were
SSoTJod cretty and unapproachable; yet
tba sneaker declared in spirited man
nor that he was intimately acquainted
tba leaders and knew that they neither
Uisbed nor did any individual wrong or
harI,, that they were laboring for the
/ Salvation of the human race. He had
seen them and knew them, and knew
| that thev had undergone hardships for
tho welfare and good of the people of
the world. and the people gathered by
their agency were better OF IN Utah
than they ever would have been IL the
lands where they were born and reared.
He feryently prayed for the improve
ment of the Saints, and exhorted them
to unity and faithtulness.
ELDER GEORGE Q. LAMBERT thought
he would not have had the indie
nandence and manhood spoken OF y
Elder Morris, had he been born IN Il
foreign land. The followers OF the
Savior were given to understand that
their invariable lot would be 10 be per
secuted. If the Saints were not being
prosecuted, where were we 10 look for
people who Wer7? Elder Lambert was
consoIed with the thought that 1t was
for righteousness sake that they were
being harrassed. The opposition arrayed
against them is due TO the fact that
they are doing the will of God. To say
that it was bu one principle of the
Saints religion the world was opposed
to was false; 1t was the power acquired
BY the church which alarmed the out
side. the same as that ex1ibled by
IF HE dow .
The same feeling inspired the enem'e s
of the people of the eastern States IN
the infancy of the church. Was 1t for
polygamy then? No. That principle
was net publicly Promulgated then.
The objection urged was that the Saints
claimed to receive revelations; but the
real stumbling block was that the
world was afraid of the Saints power
in the union they maintained, they
were a peaceable people, and minded
their own business. The same spirit
had always existed in every locality
where the Saints had settled. The peo-
pie OF Utah were b eing looked upon by
the world, and it behooved the Saints
to so govern themselves as to be ex-
amples. They had everything to en-
courage them. What would it profit them
il they turned aside now and forfeited
eternal life? The Saints are better off
than the majority of communities in
the world; they owned their own
homes and lands. What could the
world offer them to renounce their re-
ligion and recant for? They had
nothing. He felt that though those
now living did not expect to see the re-
demption of Zion, they should so in
struct and impress upon their children
the magnitude of the work of God. He
believed the gospel of the Latter day
Saints was the power of God unIo sal
vation. He did not pretend to see the
end of the present crusade of persecn'-
ton now going on against the Saints,
BUTT could be shortened by the Saints
who should look forward to
the reward in the hereafter promised |
the faithful. Their enemies could not |
prevent the Saints gaining exaltation in
the life to come. In conclusion, Elder |
Lambert exhorted the Saints to trust |
IN God disregard the popular feeling of |
the wicked; look to themselves; search |
The heart; God was not asleep, but |
would hear and answer the prayers of |
The faithful; turn to God with whole
leartedness; everything was to be |
,ained by being faithful and true to |
the covenants they had made.
Singing of an anthem eFT
Benediction by Elder Ford.